Job Title: Cobol Programmer
Location: Omaha, NE (Onsite) - 5 Days onsite
Contract: 12+ months (Contract to hire)
Job Description:
- Mainframe Developers are responsible for the design, creation, and maintenance of mainframe computer systems and software applications.
- These professionals use their strong programming skills and knowledge of mainframe systems to ensure optimal system performance.
- Review designs and or code for testing, and debugging mainframe software applications
- Modifying mainframe applications using programming languages like COBOL, JCL, DB2, and CICS. Performing performance tuning of mainframe systems and applications and conducts support activities with remote team members.
- Ability to problem solve, code, test, and deploy application fixes in a fast-paced SLA driven environment.
- Codes and tests high priority and critical changes utilizing COBOL, JCL, and DB2.
- Meets with project managers to provide daily or weekly project statuses.
- On call rotation once every 5 weeks.
Skills, Experience, and Education:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or equivalent
- Ten+ years of software development engineering experience.
- Working knowledge in an IBM Mainframe environment ? proficient with COBOL, JCL, DB2, and working with IBM Mainframe ZOS toolsets.
- Strong knowledge of the following: DB2, IDCAMS, Syncsort; File-Master; File Transmission (FTP/NDM); The following would be nice to have REXX; Endevor; Clarity; Jira
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in technical design writing and documentation.
- Proficient with usage of MS office Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint